F# Job: Credit Suisse GMAG seek Trader Tools Project Lead

Over the last few years the F# team at Microsoft have been very glad to work with the Credit Suisse GMAG group . GMAG (Global Modelling and Analytics)are successful adopters of F#, as they reported on at CUFP 2008. This continues strongly and the group continue to provide essential feedback on the design and implementation of the F# language and its related Visual Studio tools.

The group is now looking for an outstanding project lead for a new initiative where they expect F# to play a significant role. A snippet of the job description is below, contact Howard Mansell (howard.mansell@credit-suisse.com) for more details.

THE POSITION: Trader Tools Project Lead (London)

One of the core activities of GMAG is to deliver tools to sales & trading that allow them to analyse markets and portfolios, and price trades. We employ a number of technologies and frameworks, developed in GMAG-AD, for this purpose. Our trader tools are currently deployed with an Excel front-end, with some amount of calculation implemented in Excel. We intend to transition the delivery of these tools to a non-Excel environment. We are looking for an outstanding individual to lead this effort.

Key requirements for the role are:

·Experience of leading teams of highly-skilled technical specialists, and a demonstrated ability to deliver outstanding solutions to difficult problems.

·Very strong understanding of commercial software development processes and distributed team development of complex code bases.

·Ability to communicate well and understand the requirements of modellers and traders.

·Expert-level hands-on knowledge of the Microsoft .NET framework.

·Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms.

·Ideally the candidate will have experience with F#, WPF, COM, C++, C# and web development.

·Experience in the finance sector is highly desirable but not essential.